Τρίτη, 29 Δεκεμβρίου 2015

Πέμπτη, 24 Δεκεμβρίου 2015

“You can't give her that!' she screamed. 'It's not safe!' IT'S A SWORD, said the Hogfather. THEY'RE NOT MEANT TO BE SAFE. 'She's a child!' shouted Crumley.IT'S EDUCATIONAL. 'What if she cuts herself?' THAT WILL BE AN IMPORTANT LESSON.”

A great piece of dialoge taken from Terry Pratchett's "Hogfather" and illustrated as comic strip by Malaysian cartoonist Adi Fitri . You can see HERE the idea and creation of this strip

Τετάρτη, 9 Δεκεμβρίου 2015

Sotiris Adrianos is a new Greek painter. Born in 1977 is an Athens based artist, dealing mainly with oil painting. He turned to dark symbolism recently and these works are inspired from Renaissance great painters like Rembrandt, Rubens, Bruegel and the death motifs like vanitas, maiden and death and memento mori, using the same old symbols of memento mori, vanity, fragility and transience of earthly goods and delights, like skulls, coins, butterflies, lizards, crows, etc. He was awarded with the gold medal in Olympic Fine Arts London 2012, for his work "Choices" Visit his SITE for more of his work.

Graphics that depict dark aspects of history—such as violence, intolerance, racism, aggressive nationalism, war and atrocity, abuse of others and of the environment in general—have not been censored.We must confront such harsh images directly—and struggle to critically understand them—if we hope to ever make a better world. ocw.mit.edu